“First Grade” (Book Fourteen of the Japanese Picture Book Battle)

This is a book of poems. Ichinensei means “First Grade.”

Poetry seems to cause me trouble. So much reliance on wordplay and whatnot.

First poem in the book. I’ll translate it, but first for you non-Japanese speaking people, you must know that あ is the first character in hiragana. Very similar to A as the first letter in the alphabet.

あ makes the sound “ah” and if you see it written down in romaji it is “a”.